Actor Tom Hanks will be playing Disney in the upcoming film Saving Mr. Banks.

Hanks will be the first actor to portray Disney in film.

In April 2011 it was announced that American Gods will be adapted into a series for HBO by Playtone ( Tom Hanks ' production company ), with Robert Richardson & Gaiman writing the pilot.

Tom Hanks portrayed Robert Langdon in the 2006 film adaptation of The Da Vinci Code, reprised the role in the 2009 film adaptation of Angels & Demons, and will play the role again in the 2012 film adaptation of The Lost Symbol.

In 2011, Matarazzo announced that she will begin working on her directorial debut, a television series to be based on a memoir by author Diane Hanks, entitled Summer Camp: A Memoir.

Kip Wilson ( Hanks ) is originally skeptical of the plan, but after meeting gorgeous resident model / dancer / nurse Sonny Lumet ( Donna Dixon ), he ends up convincing aspiring writer Henry Desmond ( Scolari ) that the experience will make a great book.

It has been announced Yost will write the story for the new Major Matt Mason movie scheduled for release in 2012 with Tom Hanks.

Tom Hanks is expected to reprise his role as Langdon, and Brian Grazer and John Calley have signed on to produce the film, though it has not been confirmed if Ron Howard will return to direct.

Hanks told New York magazine in 1986: " Acting classes looked like the best place for a guy who liked to make a lot of noise and be rather flamboyant ... I spent a lot of time going to plays.

In a 1993 issue of Disney Adventures, Hanks said, " I saw Turner & Hooch the other day in the SAC store and couldn't help but be reminiscent.

In a USA Weekend interview, Hanks talked about how he chooses projects: " A League of Their Own, it can't be just another movie for me.

A supporter of NASA's manned space program, Hanks has said that he originally wanted to be an astronaut but " didn't have the math.

On one visit, Hanks asked Conan to join his run for president on the " Bad Haircut Party " ticket, with confetti and balloons and a hand held sign with the slogan " You'd be stupid to vote for us ".

The Academy Award-winning Forrest Gump ( 1994 ) depended heavily on computerized special effects to create the illusion of Tom Hanks shaking hands with Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and to make Gary Sinise convincingly appear to be a double amputee, winning a special-effects Oscar.

Big is a 1988 fantasy film directed by Penny Marshall, and stars Tom Hanks as Josh Baskin, a young boy who makes a wish " to be big " to a magical wishing machine and is then aged to adulthood overnight.

Howard's brother Clint Howard can be seen as a wedding guest, identified by Candy's character as the bride's brother and yelled at by Hanks.

A 2011 poll conducted by Reuters and Ipsos revealed that White was considered to be the most popular and most trusted celebrity among Americans, beating out the likes of Denzel Washington, Sandra Bullock, and Tom Hanks.

Dante, Brezner and Finnell agreed that Tom Hanks would be the most suitable actor to portray the harried Ray Peterson, a conservative man who tries to introduce excitement into his life by investigating the activities of his strange neighbors.

At home, she later looks at the torn card to see that Ed went on to be a great Monty Hanks, batting champion and played for his team for many years to follow ...

In his The Independent review, Robert Hanks assessed it to be " sloppy " and said Williams deserved better.

) Tom Hanks ' opening monologue poked fun at opening monologues ( hinting at a future change in the trend, as the monologue would more and more often be less of a monologue and more of a sketch ), while Buck Henry performed a monologue dealing with Steve Martin's inability to perform live ( as Martin wailed uncontrollably in the background ).

Hanks is believed to be the only Indianapolis 500 driver to participate in the race before WWII, serve in the war effort, then return to race again after the war.

It stars Tom Hanks and Jackie Gleason in what would prove to be Gleason's final film role-he was suffering from colon cancer, liver cancer, and thrombosed hemorrhoids during production.

All directed by Lubitsch, the three were “ Trouble in Paradise ,” “ Heaven Can Wait ,” and Raphaelson ’ s favorite, “ The Shop Around the Corner ” which had starred James Stewart and Margaret Sullivan and which Kael wrote was “ as close to perfection as a movie made by mortals is ever likely to be ; it couldn ’ t be the airy wonder it was without the structure Raphaelson built into it .” ( The story was remade in 1998 as “ You ’ ve Got Mail ,” with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.

The most apparent may be in the 1992 film A League of Their Own, starring Tom Hanks, Geena Davis and Madonna ; the museum's depot was used for several small town depot scenes and the Nebraska Zephyr and only surviving EMD E5 were used for scenes of and on the train.

The next year, Hanks landed a lead role on the ABC television pilot of Bosom Buddies, playing the role of Kip Wilson.

After a series of roles in television and film during the 1990s, including a small part in Forrest Gump playing Tom Hanks ' title character ’ s son, Osment rose to fame with his performance as Cole Sear in M. Night Shyamalan's thriller film, The Sixth Sense, which earned him a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

* Forrest Gump featuring Eugene playing the role of Tom Hanks, with William Regal making a cameo appearance.

One of the students ( played by Tom Hanks in the movie ) suffers a psychotic breakdown while playing the game.

Ed stumbles through to find himself in the uniform of Monty Hanks, without his injury and actually playing ball.

In 1998, Daly appeared in several episodes of the Emmy award-winning, Tom Hanks-produced HBO mini-series From the Earth to the Moon playing astronaut Jim Lovell, whom Hanks himself had portrayed in the film Apollo 13.

Many names were considered including Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, Cary Grant ( who was asked but turned it down ), Tom Hanks ( Eisner felt he was " too young " and turned him down ), Walter Cronkite, Roy E. Disney ( who closely resembled his uncle ), and even Mickey Mouse.

It was also unfavorably compared to the 1988 film Big, in which Tom Hanks also played a child in a grown man's body.

The 1994 Tom Hanks film Forrest Gump while not presented as a documentary of a real character, does contain several sequences that feature the Hanks character inserted into archival newsreel footage of John Kennedy, Gerald Ford, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, The Apollo 11 astronauts, and others, to realistic effect.

In film, Abdul choreographed sequences for the giant keyboard scene involving Tom Hanks ’ s character in Big.

Although the character was written with Cromwell in mind, Tom Hanks, a big fan of Star Trek, was approached for the role by Paramount first, but he had already committed to the film That Thing You Do!

Before filming began, several of the film's stars, including Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Adam Goldberg, Giovanni Ribisi, and Tom Hanks, endured ten days of " boot camp " training and work on the film set to prepare for their roles.

Hanks is also known for his collaboration with film director Steven Spielberg on Saving Private Ryan and the mini-series Band of Brothers, which launched Hanks also as a successful director, producer and writer.

The family's three oldest children, Sandra ( now Sandra Hanks Benoiton, a writer ), Larry ( now Lawrence M. Hanks, PhD, an entomology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ) and Tom, went with their father, while the youngest, Jim, now an actor and film maker, remained with his mother in Red Bluff, California.

In 1979, Hanks moved to New York City, where he made his film debut in the low-budget slasher film He Knows You're Alone ( 1980 ) and got a part in the television movie Mazes and Monsters.

The film established Hanks as a major Hollywood talent.

Hanks on the film set of Forrest Gump in 1994

Of the film, Hanks has remarked: " When I read the script for Gump, I saw it as one of those kind of grand, hopeful movies that the audience can go to and feel ... some hope for their lot and their position in life ...

Hanks ' next role — astronaut and commander Jim Lovell, in the 1995 film Apollo 13 — reunited him with Ron Howard.

Hanks turned to directing with his 1996 film That Thing You Do!

Hanks and producer Gary Goetzman went on to create Playtone, a record and film production company named for the record company in the film.

Hanks next starred in the highly anticipated film The Da Vinci Code, based on the bestselling novel by Dan Brown.

Later in 2006, Hanks produced the British film Starter for Ten, a comedy based on working class students attempting to win University Challenge.

In 2007, Hanks starred in Mike Nichols's film Charlie Wilson's War ( written by screenwriter Aaron Sorkin ) in which he plays Democratic Texas Congressman Charles Wilson.

The film opened on December 21, 2007, and Hanks received a Golden Globe nomination.

Hanks is producer of the Spike Jonze film Where The Wild Things Are, based on the children's book by Maurice Sendak.